Design Executive (3 month FTC)
Kickstart your agency career: 3 months, real-world experience, endless creativity.
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About the role
We're looking for a Junior Designer to join our Marketing & Creative teams on a three-month fixed-term contract. This is a great opportunity for a design student or emerging designer looking to gain hands-on agency experience while building a real-world portfolio.
You'll work closely with our Marketing and Creative teams to help bring the Journey Further brand to life across a wide range of internal initiatives. From event collateral and pitch decks to campaign assets, presentations and internal resources, this role plays an important part in creating high-quality, on-brand creative.
What you will do
Designing Journey Further marketing and brand assets across digital and print
Creating presentations & pitch decks, event collateral and campaign creative
Supporting the development of internal resources and brand materials
Collaborating with our Marketing & Creative teams to turn ideas into polished creative
Maintaining consistency across every Journey Further brand touchpoint
Supporting the wider Creative team on client projects when required
Requirements
You have a portfolio that showcases strong attention to detail and a good eye for design, layout and typography
Strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop). AfterEffects is desirable
Experience with Figma (or a willingness to learn it)
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Good organisation skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks
You'll ideally be studying/have studied Graphic Design
Contract type
This is a 3 month FTC, 37.5 hours a week. We are ideally looking for a mid-late July start.
Location
This role is based out of our Leeds office as this is where both teams are based. There is an in office requirement of x2 days per week.
Diversity & Inclusion
Journey Further takes pride in creating an environment where everyone can be themselves. This starts with recruitment.
We pledge to make our roles as open as possible and to provide equal opportunities to everyone that is kind enough to give us their time. All recruitment decisions we take will be based solely on the positive skills and behaviours that applicants display and absolutely nothing else.
We do not discriminate based on any personal characteristic, we are a people first agency and we care about and celebrate individuals.
If something is important to you, it's important to us. If you have a particular need during the application process or during your time at Journey Further, please let us know.
- Department
- Creative
- Locations
- Leeds
- Monthly salary
- £2,100
- Employment type
- Temporary
Leeds
Perks & Benefits
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Flexibility
We understand that everyone works differently, so we provide them the freedom to work how they want, when they want and where they want. No role is ever fully remote as we want people to be spending time with one another in person – however, we will support you in making sure you are supported in what ways of working suit you best.
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Experience
Work alongside one of the most experienced digital teams in the industry, and collaborate directly with clients at some of the world’s largest brands and high-growth startups.
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Wellbeing
We actively care for our team’s physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
We run various company initiatives to help promote physical wellbeing – yoga, running club, 5-a-side football to name a few.
We believe in taking a proactive approach when it comes to all our people’s mental wellbeing. As such we have partnered with experts from Vitality as well as trained Mental Health First Aiders, who our people can turn to in times of need
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Trust
We believe in giving ambitious people incredible autonomy in their work. You’ll have the freedom to tackle complex problems and the support of some of the talented people in the industry to do so.
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Learning
Through our Learn Together sessions, Book Club and Podcast, we learn from the best minds in the world and apply the most valuable insight to the work we do and how we run the business.
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CSR
CSR is a key priority for the business. We’re currently working on how we can make a lasting, positive impact on the world around us.
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Benefits
Our benefits package is constantly evolving. In the UK it currently includes:
- Pension matched up to 4%
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Private medical insurance
- Personal health fund
- Home working allowance
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and Christmas shutdown
- Unlimited unpaid holiday
In the US it currently includes:
- 401k matching
- Subsidized Medical, Dental & Vision
Company Life Insurance - Enhanced Maternity & Paternity cover
- Flexible and Remote working
- 19 days paid time off plus 12 federal holidays & office closure between Christmas and New Year.
- 1 additional day for observing a cultural, religious, or a personally meaningful occasion of their choice
- Unpaid time off
About Journey Further
Journey Further is a performance marketing agency working with the world's leading brands and fast-growth start-ups. We blend strategic thinking, creativity, digital channels and experimentation taking brands beyond performance.